SOCOM 4 Bomb Squad and Beta Details

Competitive multiplayer has always been the core of the SOCOM franchise, and SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs takes it further than ever before with modes and options that both new recruits and veterans alike will enjoy. We've previously covered three of our four competitive modes -- Suppression, Last Defense and Uplink -- and today we're excited to unveil our fourth mode, Bomb Squad.

* On March 15th, a private beta goes live. We’ll be contacting eligible players soon.
* Beginning March 22nd, PlayStation Plus members will gain access to the beta.
* On March 29th, anyone with a beta code included with Killzone 3 gains entry.
* Starting April 5th, the beta will be freely downloadable to anyone via PlayStation Network.

Why? We supported the Killzone developers just like you did. Just because we prefer Socom over Killzone doesn't mean we deserve anything. Is it funny how it has worked out? Absolutely. Do those people who support a developer deserve any screwing? Nope.

Socom is one of the only games that still gets me on the edge of my seat. When Im the last one alive on my team and there are still two or three people alive on the other team the blood really gets pumping. Very intense.

well people don't seem to care for you iamironman so who knows lol. i still believe in the franchise despite the changes and Sony having an outsider dev make the first Socom title on PS3 [stupid decision ever] but that's me.

SONY SONY SONY SMHAll 4 modes WOW just like Killzone everyone's gonna get the full multiplayer experience in the Beta and have nothing to look forward to when it realeases. Why must you continue to fail over and over and over, forcing your devs utilize PS move, and 3d in sacrifice of their games, and in the end gamers suffer, and when gamers suffer there not gonna have any reason to turn to your system especially when other systems exclusives have so much content on disc smh.

ALL I see is SONY games removing content and features, while barely adding anything, oh wait sorry let me not forget, we get PS move awesome........... where's socom's old modes, they can't fit on a 50 gig blu-ray? PS move and 3d take too much space? well thanks for nothing.

You obviously don't know wtf you are talking about. What game has been stripped down? Please do tell, I insist. What devs have they forced to use move support? They encourage but do not force. Naughty dog has declined using move support for Uncharted 3.

Socom has lost escort, demolition, extraction etc. for some reason could'nt have online co-op, and only 3 operations maps, and only 3 modes overall, 1 vehicle (which makes no sense they might as well have none if they're only gonna have one). resistance has gone from 60 to 16, players online, lost 8 player co-op, Infamous could of had multiplayer instead there's some bogus map creator. They should be focusing on giving players content and features, to give players varied experiences so players can stay online in a game for a long period of time, the only way to get a complete online exeprience from them, is to buy muliple games, Uncharted for traversal moves, and wave modes. warhawk for vehicles. resistance for true co-op, and maybe hopefully free for all which I would'nt be surprised at this point if it was taken out of the game. I'm not buying a game from them until I see a multiplayer experience that gives me a fresh or varied experience, with different options and gametypes to chose from.

i read somewhere that multiplayer will have a move only option. that gets me excited cause i want to use the move and acually be able to compete online. i loved the move with kz3 but had my ass handed to me online. i hope what ive read is true.

While I got the KZ3 PS3 Bundle... I didn't expect to get the Socom Beta Access Code... so I was thrilled.. I'm 97% with the Platinum on KZ3.... Retro Map Pack DLC included... so I played me some KZ...

but I still think from advertisement point of view.... including the beta... made people assume that they would get it first... so this kind of just sucks... and in a way seems wrong.. it's almost like they deceived everyone.

i agree with you, it does say get early access to the beta on the damn thing, so why the 29 it's BS if you ask me. but i got KZ3 for KZ3 the beta code was just a bonus to me. well at least we finally got a date for the beta release.